Vintage black-light Marvel posters

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Zack sez, "Spectacular (and psychedelic) blacklight posters of blown-up Marvel Comics scenes done in the early 1970s. Far out of my price range ($899 each from Penny Candy/559-226-1397), it's nonetheless satisfying to see Jack Kirby and Gene Colan's art taken to their logical extremes. Anyone want to rob a bank?"

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Even given the often-crazy prices attached to collectibles, $900 for a poster that was originally marketed to 70s teenagers is… well, it’s probably sad more than anything else. They can get away with these sorts of prices because most kids would have moved them from their bedrooms at home, to dorm rooms, to their first apartments, and the corners would have holes from thumbtacks and left-over adhesive from tape and greasy spots from that Plasti-Tak putty, indications of how much the original owner loved them, like post-pubertal versions of the Velveteen Rabbit.

I still have a handful of these in large postcard size
( maybe 6″ x 9″ ) that I assume are original, they came from my wife’s mother’s estate. Also a bunch of greeting cards with the same artwork styles and printing techniques. They are in the fluorescent inks but no black velvet.

She used to take the kids to Sci-Cons in the 70’s. So $900 for a reprint in larger size? I wonder what these originals are worth?

I used to manage a vintage record shop that had been closed down since 1983 and when the owner let me re-open it there were tons of posters in there from the 60’s through 83. 5 of the posters that I bought right off the bat were these marvel black light posters. In all there was this gorgeous Dr. Strange one, Thor crossing over the Rainbow Bridge, The Incredible Hulk shrunken down ready to take on a wild pig, Captain Mar-Vel taking on the Submariner, and a Beauty shot of Medusa. If you can find these treasures they are well worth it.